GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Eq. achiv.), _Linn. Drury._ Papilio Nymphalis, _Fabr._ (SUBGENUS: Charaxes, _Boisduval_.) NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) ANTICLEA. Alis suprà fuscis fasciâ terminali fulvâ, in anticis maculari et abbreviatâ, in posticis ocellis 4, anali sesquialtero. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Anticlea, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. Nymphalis Ant., _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 353. _No._ 9. HABITAT: Sierra Leone (_Drury_, in text). "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1766" (_Drury's_ MSS.). _Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings chocolate-coloured; the lower corners being tipped with orange, to the upper part of which joins a spot of the same colour, and another small one is placed nearer the tips. The basal parts of the posterior wings chocolate, the apical parts orange; they are doubly angulated, and at the abdominal corners have a black ocellus with two white pupils, and a small orange spot below them; three other small eyes are also placed along the external edges. _Under Side._ Palpi and legs buff-coloured. Breast russet. Abdomen dark orange. Wings russet-coloured, with bands of lighter and darker shades running from the anterior edges of the anterior wings, and ending below the body on the abdominal edges, some of the bands being verged with black. Anterior wings having three small black spots placed near the shoulders, and the posterior with two small white spots at the abdominal corners, and four others placed along the external edges, growing fainter as they approach the upper corners, till at length they are quite lost. PLATE XXVIII. [Illustration] ACRÆA HORTA. Plate XXVIII. fig. 1, 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Heliconiidæ. GENUS. ACRÆA, _Fabr. Latr._ Papilio (Heliconii), _Fabr._ olim. ACRÆA HORTA. Alis oblongis integerrimis, supra fulvis; anticis ad extimum hyalino-cinerascentibus, posticis utrinque nigro punctatis subtusque albidis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 7½ lin.) SYN. Papilio (Helic.) Horta, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. _p._ 755. _No._ 54. _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Cramer, Pap._ _pl._ 298. _fig._ F. G. _Herbst. Pap._ _tab._ 83. _f._ 1. 2. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 231. 1. HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (_Drury's_ MSS.). Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa (_Enc. Méth._). _Upper Side._ Antennæ, thorax, and abdomen black, the latter spotted on its sides. Anterior wings, next the body dark orange, but at the tips about two-fifths are pellucid. Near the middle, towards the anterior edge, is a small black spot, and a streak of the same colour. Posterior wings dark orange, black at the base, with a narrow border of orange and black running along the external edges, and a group, consisting of fifteen different shaped black spots, occupying the middle.